"It's important if we the people are going to run our government, that we know what it is, how it works, and how we can participate in it," Gorsuch said as part of Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Gorsuch's work promoting civic education.
Dyslexia legislation is important so that students are not left to "wait to fail" before receiving screening, diagnosis and evidence-based instruction. New legislation in Massachusetts now requires the state education department to issue guidelines about screening procedures and protocols for students that show neurological learning disability indicators.
Nearly 1,800 current and former educators ran for state legislative seats. Among many others, winners include Tony Evers, Wisconsin's next governor and the state's current superintendent of public instruction.
The second largest school referendum in Wisconsin on the Nov. 6 ballot was approved. Wauwatosa School District's construction will include four new elementary buildings. The other 10 aging buildings will undergo safety and security upgrades, HVAC improvements, and installation of flexible classrooms.
Last month, the New York City Council passed a bill requiring the Department of Education to publish by December 2019 an annual report on how much each parent-teacher association or parent association is raising. The bill requires the department to post the report on its website, deliver it to the council's speaker and provide demographic information at each PTA's school.
The personnel function in public education is multi-faceted and it is one in which all prospective or practicing administrators must have a solid base of knowledge. With the exception of promoting and protecting the well being of the the students, I believe that the personnel function is the most important responsibility of school administrators; in […]
LRP Media Group, parent company of District Administration, has acquired Atlantic Research Partners' National Superintendents Academy. The first cohort of the superintendent training program will launch in February 2019, with subsequent academies to be announced later, says Robert Avossa, senior vice president and publisher, education products, for LRP. "We are excited to launch DA's National […]
One of the most fertile areas for collaborative problem-solving between colleges and their K12 counterparts may be the mission they share: education. When edtech developers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania asked K12 teachers to wish for a superpower, the teachers imagined student data hovering in midair before their very eyes. Wish granted. Lumilo, the […]
As parents increasingly turn to marijuana to treat children, school district administrators have had to establish rules for the drug's use on school grounds.
